Glass crusher



P. VOCATURO GLASS CRUSHER Oct. '17, 1939.

Filed Oct. 27, 1938 MQTMM Patented Oct. 17, 1939 UNITED STATES PATENTOFFICE GLASS CRUSHER Application October 27, 1938, Serial No. 237,313

1 Claim.

fragments of glass are forced through the grill 15 and fall into thedrawer.

These and other details and objects of the invention are more fullydescribed in the following specification, set forth in the appendedclaims and illustrated in the accompanying drawing,

20 wherein:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the improved glass crusher.

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical sectional view.

Fig. 3 is a cross sectional view on the line 3-3 25 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a plan view of the lower half of the box.

The device is preferably a box divided into a lower half 5 and an upperhalf and lid 6 joined 30 by hinges l at the rear.

On the upper side of the half 5 is a grating 8 and beneath same is adrawer 9 to receive the fragments of glass that fall through the gratingand that may be removed when a quantity ac- 35 cumulates.

Pivoted at the rear of the half 6 is a lever I extending through a slotH in the front wall and having a handle l2. The lever I0 carries on itslower edge a plunger I3 that is a block of metal or hard wood adapted tobe forced down upon bottles by the lever to break and crush them on thegrate 8. The lower side of the plunger is convex so that the initialpressure may be made on a minimum area to efiect a preliminary break inone or more bottles.

Attached to the inside of the box top are coil springs l4 also securedto the plunger to pull the plunger and lever away from their operative10 position so that the bottles may be located thereunder fordestruction.

The bottles may be inserted in the box through an opening covered by adoor I5 that will prevent fragments of glass from flying outward as theyare crushed.

The two halves of the box may be held together by hooks I6 and thegrating may be supported by cleats I1.

While a practical construction of the device is shown it is obvious thatthe parts may be otherwise arranged or modified without departing fromthe essential features shown and described or from the scope of theclaim.

What I claim as new is:

' In a bottle crusher, the combination of a box divided into a lower andan upper section hinged together, the upper section having a slot and adoor for inserting bottles, a lever pivoted in the upper section andextending through the slot, a plunger carried by the lever, springs onthe plunger to hold it up in an inoperative position,

a grate beneath the plunger and on line with the doc-r of the uppersection to discharge the bottle fragments, hinges connecting the twosections, and a drawer beneath the grate.

PASQUALE VOCATURO.

